{"id":862544,"date":"2025-07-14T21:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/digital-id-is-not-digital-colonialism-its-an-investment-in-africas-future\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:13:42","slug":"digital-id-is-not-digital-colonialism-its-an-investment-in-africas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/digital-id-is-not-digital-colonialism-its-an-investment-in-africas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital ID is not digital colonialism \u2013 it\u2019s an investment in Africa\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is on the cusp of a digital transformation \u2013 and digital ID is the key to unlocking it. By the end of 2025, there will be 9.5 billion people on Earth, and 25% of these people will be African. By 2100, that number will rise to 4 in 10&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/partner-content\/2025-06-11-digital-id-is-not-digital-colonialism-its-an-investment-in-africas-future\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Shaun Goosen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is on the cusp of a digital transformation \u2013 and digital ID is the key to unlocking it. By the end of 2025, there will be 9.5 billion people on Earth, and 25% of these people will be African. By 2100, that number will rise to 4 in 10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22067,192],"tags":[6541],"class_list":{"0":"post-862544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-digital","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-digital"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}